Amazing Animals - Perfect Shot book cover

Amazing Animals - Perfect Shot

by Yamada Katsuhisa

Published:
2008 by Seibundo Shinkosha
Pages:
70
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
Japanese
ISBN-13:
9784416308066
ISBN-10:
441630806X

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Skill Level Complex
Clear diagrams? Yes
Tinted diagrams (to show 2 sides of paper)? Yes
Photos of completed models? Exellent photos
Is there indication to the model size resulting from size of starting paper? No
Are the models "Pure" origami (From a single square - no cuts)? Yes

Overall Impression

This original book is all about getting "picture moments" - several subjects from a single square of paper, usually using both sides of the paper for interesting color-changes. My favorites here are all the models involving various combiantions of pandas, one incorporating 3 pandas from one sheet.

The animals are usually portrayed in Yamada's cartoonish style, as caricatures of the real ones.

Diagramming quality is good, but the requirement for some complicated moves with occasional vague reference-points, would make me recommend the book to complex, or at least high-intermediate folders.

There are 16 Origami Designs in Amazing Animals - Perfect Shot:

Design Designer Page Details Photo

Pandas - Intimate

Mammals - Ursidae - Pandas

Yamada Katsuhisa14Square

Also in Tanteidan 2nd convention
Origami Pandas - Intimate by Yamada Katsuhisa. Folded from a square of double-sided Unryu paper by Gilad Aharoni on giladorigami.com
Folded from a square of double-sided Unryu paper by Gilad Aharoni
Pandas - 2

Mammals - Ursidae - Pandas

Yamada Katsuhisa18SquareOrigami Pandas - 2 by Yamada Katsuhisa. Folded from a square of double-sided Unryu paper by Gilad Aharoni on giladorigami.com
Folded from a square of double-sided Unryu paper by Gilad Aharoni
Pandas - 3

Mammals - Ursidae - Pandas

Yamada Katsuhisa20SquareOrigami Pandas - 3 by Yamada Katsuhisa. Folded from a square of double-sided Unryu paper by Gilad Aharoni on giladorigami.com
Folded from a square of double-sided Unryu paper by Gilad Aharoni
Panda and young

Mammals - Ursidae - Pandas

Yamada Katsuhisa24SquareOrigami Panda and young by Yamada Katsuhisa. Folded from a square of double-sided Unryu paper by Gilad Aharoni on giladorigami.com
Folded from a square of double-sided Unryu paper by Gilad Aharoni
2 dragonflies

Insects

Yamada Katsuhisa28Square
2 butterflies

Insects - Butterflies

Yamada Katsuhisa32Square
2 bears

Mammals - Ursidae - Bears

Yamada Katsuhisa36Square
2 rabbits

Mammals - Lagomorpha - Rabbits and Bunnies

Yamada Katsuhisa39Square
Eagle and rabbit

Mammals - Lagomorpha - Rabbits and Bunnies

Yamada Katsuhisa42Square

A somewhat abstract eagle with a rabbit in its claws
Bear and salmon

Mammals - Ursidae - Bears

Yamada Katsuhisa46Square

Also in Origami Tanteidan Magazine 41
Origami Bear and salmon by Yamada Katsuhisa. Folded from a square of double-sided Unryu paper by Gilad Aharoni on giladorigami.com
Folded from a square of double-sided Unryu paper by Gilad Aharoni
Frog eating snake

Amphibians

Yamada Katsuhisa50Square

Also in Tanteidan 1st convention
Origami Frog eating snake by Yamada Katsuhisa on giladorigami.com
Folded by Egg Origami
Frog eating dragonfly

Amphibians

Yamada Katsuhisa54Square
Snake eating frog

Reptiles - Snakes

Yamada Katsuhisa56SquareOrigami Snake eating frog by Yamada Katsuhisa on giladorigami.com
Folded by Egg Origami
Intimate snakes

Reptiles - Snakes

Yamada Katsuhisa60Square
Pigs - Intimate

Mammals - Suidae - Pigs and Boars

Yamada Katsuhisa63Square
Nightingale and plum flower

Birds - Passeriformes

Yamada Katsuhisa66Square